Humility found in the model of ashes, dust and sackcloth.

 <sup>Dust and ashes ritual results.

Friends ,
     I was burdened again to do more repenting in sackcloth , dust and ashes on Christmas day.This is also a full moon day and I was fasting.
     Went to the basement made a fire, laid in some cold ashes and threw kitty litter on my head (in the bible they used dust) and repented. I prayed the prayer of Daniel 9 and the short history in Nehemiah. I took some  clothes and tore them up with much anger and gusto. Abhorred myself as instructed by Job 42:</sup> 6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. <sup>About 10 AM and I was well rested, but fell asleep.  I walked up the stairs and in the room above the basement where I was repenting there was a faint, but bright hazy mist in the room. I thought my glasses were dirty , but no. Went back down and did some more, fell asleep and back up the stairs  and the mist was still there. The next time I came up it was gone.
    This was the third time I had done the ashes, sackcloth, etc. The first time was out in the yard on burnt tree stump in the evening. I tried to stand up then and felt something pushing on my body, so I went into the house bent over on one side.
    Second time with a friend and another person on the deck. Nothing manifested then, but after that time I was pressed in spirit to do it again and that was Christmas day.

      This mourning process brought on a comfort in my soul. 

    Now you know about the ritual of repentance. Satanists, Freemasons, etc. use rituals in their sorceries and they have power. The ritual of repentance is never copied by any other religion. In fact it is neglected even amongst the churches. Why might that be? 



6</sup> Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

     So no, I am not done with confessions or repentance. When the Spirit brings up something I have to confess. The prayer of confession and repentance avails much. It works! Add the other "props" with the confession and you prove your faith by your works. Ashes, dust and sackcloth brings on something wonderful.

Some day I might be able to convert a sinner besides myself. Ha. ha. Self converting process on me is saving my soul from death and hiding a multitude of cult sinning.

 
¹⁹ Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
²⁰ Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

Abhoring himself and repenting in Ashes worked for Job, why not for us?

  I am seeing here a very simple formula for healing of the soul and body, here and now, not there and later. I experience now the soul healing for some time as I discussed earlier. My body is working fine.

    For those Christians who need  some kind of healing in the body as well as the soul( 

The already saved ones, John, not the ones who need salvation) here is a simple idea from the end of the book of Job.

1. Do the abhor-yourself- thing and repent in dust and ashes. See Job 42.

2. Pray for your saved friends and in particular for the needs of the body. Reap what we sow and therefore if one needs healing then praying for ones friends healing is not a bad idea.

     I think it could be a powerful test or testimony to find a small or large gathering of believers together and test this thing out. God always blesses it when there is unity and faith.  I have been to some meetings with small kinds of healing that happened. It either works or it doesn't. It could even work on an unbeliever concerning some bodily need for healing and then the person would have no excuse not to believe that God still heals today and not just a long time ago in the gospels or when we die and get heavenly healing.

    I know when I did the ashes thing myself the glory came and I felt it. I did not do the prayer for my friends thing though. I need a God who manifests His glory and presence , healing , miracles , signs and wonders like we read in the bible. otherwise I wonder what kind of God have I got? I might have a different God than the bible one and not interested in that kind of God who only saves us when we are dead. We can talk doctrine and beliefs till we both die. So what? Where is the God of Elijah?

Where is the God of Jesus Christ?

Art of abhorrence

ON another note of salvation I have been meditating on the verse in job :

    Job 42:6

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

  

I was on the very verge of suicide just before I had my visit from the Lord . How I got there is not the point. The point is I was so disgusted with myself and this life. I hated myself that much.

    So we see dear Job got to a low point, abhorred himself and then he got healed , restored , etc. Glorious grace of God was on him. Ok…

    

     Why not be like Job and abhor ourselves which leads us into real deep repentance? Abhor--repent--then repeat  it until you finally believe it and really abhor yourself.  I like it. It now comes kind of easy for me to do that , but for another righteous sinner it may be difficult to really abhor themselves.

  

    While in that moment of abhorrence, we can then mourn and the Lord promised we would find comfort in Him. The sackcloth and ashes are just signs  and a remembrance for ourselves and God that we mean business.  Some may find it difficult to do the wallow in ashes thing first but if one practices the art of abhorring self it will finally come I think. I can't seem to get off the topic of repenting for now. I think this must be a kind of life style thing when I think on the two sackcloth prophets. They were stuck on sackcloth, poor fellows. Maybe you can ask the Lord to release them from that fashion and get them to just believe in Jesus without the props while they prophesy destruction to the earth.